Community resilience - a nudge in the right direction?
by Charlie Edwards
Homeowners need to be more aware of the risk of flooding even if they have never experienced it, says the head of Wales' flood defence strategy body. Some half a million people live in areas which need to "further develop resilience" to flooding, says the Flood Risk Management Wales Committee (FRMW). Chair Geraint Davies said: "Sometimes it's difficult to bring people to believe that they are at risk."
On Friday we were at the Emergency Planning College - their library (the largest depository of emergency / disaster management material in the UK) is an excellent resource but lacks I think one subject area that we are just getting to grips with - public behaviour/ and social psychology. New books like Here Comes Everybody and Nudge offer us a new perspective on thinking about resilience - something we will be looking into in more depth.